The flawed foundations of General Equilibrium

critical essays on economic theory

This book, as the title suggests, explains how General equilibrium, the dominant conceptual framework in mainstream economics, describes a perfectly impossible world. Even with its counterfactual assumptions taken for granted, it fails on many levels. Under the impressive editorship of Ackerman and Nadal, this book ...

New perspectives on economic crime

Edited by Hans Sjögren and Göran Skogh Economic crime is, by definition, crime committed to gain profit within an otherwise legitimate business. Examples are illegal pollution, brand name infringement and tax evasion. The victims of such crimes may be private citizens, businesses and the state ...

Data envelopment analysis

theory and techniques for economics and operation research

Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides a unified and easily comprehensible, yet fairly rigorous, exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based.in different disciplines INDICE 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Productivity ...

The company of strangers

a natural history of economic life

Human beings are the only species in nature to have developed an elaborate division of labor between strangers. Even something as simple as buying a shirt depends on an astonishing web of interaction and organization that spans the world. But unlike that other uniquely human ...

Taking sides

clashing views on controversial economic issues

This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in economics. The Taking Sides series actively develops critical thinking skills by requiring students to analyze opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgements. Adopters can use the student Web site Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online ...

Auctions

theory and practice

Governments use them to sell everything from oilfields to pollution permits, and to privatize companies; consumers rely on them to buy baseball tickets and hotel rooms, and economic theorists employ them to explain booms and busts. Auctions make up many of the world's most ...

Knowledge and competitive advantage

the coevolution of firms, technology and national institutions

The economics of innocent fraud

truth for our time

John Kenneth Galbraith, lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power and one of the most renowned economists of the twentieth century, delivers a scathing polemic on today#s economics, politics and public morality. Sounding the alarm on the gap between #conventional wisdom# and reality, Galbraith distils ...

Lessons in comparative public policy

a practical guide

This textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of comparative politics and public policy. Instead of concentrating on why countries differ, Learning From Comparative Public Policy explores how countries can learn from each other about the success and failure of policy initiatives. With its ...

El cuenta-cuentas

teoría económica y realidad social

Este libro trata del problema del paro,del medio ambiente,de la inmigración y de los cambios demográficos,de la investigación y de las consecuencias que las nuevas tecnologías de la información están teniendo en el desarrollo económico.Trata,en fin,de cuestiones que han ...

Deberes para un gobierno

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº178, año 2004)

The evolving economy

essays on the evolutionary approach to economics

Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. ÍNDICE: Preface Part I: Introduction Part ...

Decisions, uncertainty, and the brain

the Science of neuroeconomics

In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real ...

New frontiers in economics

Leading economists analyze the new directions that subdisciplines of economics have taken in the face of modern economic challenges. These essays represent invention and discovery in the areas of information, macroeconomics and public policies, international trade and development, finance, business, contracts, law, gaming, and government ...

Défendre la sécu repenser la santé

Conciliar trabajo y familia

un reto para el siglo XXI

Entrepreneurship

a new perspective

Evolution and economic complexity

Dedicated to the goal of furthering evolutionary economic analysis, this book provides a coherent scientific approach to deal with the real world of continual change in the economic system. Expansive in its scope, this book ranges from abstract discussions of ontology, analysis and theory to ...

Applied evolutionary economics and complex systems

This book takes up the challenge of developing an empirically based foundation for evolutionary economics built upon complex system theory. The authors argue that modern evolutionary economics is at a crossroads. At a theoretical level, modern evolutionary economics is moving away from the traditional focus ...

Discapacidad y mercado de trabajo